Culture Quote by Earl Sweatshirt

Before Lil B, hip-hop and music in general was in a different space. Lil B really just pushed this independence.

— Lil B

Rap started as this very black, socio-political type of thing. And now it's turned into pop music - we laugh about how everybody is…

— Stephen Glover

Odd Future's like a network as opposed to like a rap group.

— Earl Sweatshirt

Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that…

— Saul Williams

Nowadays, everybody wants to be a rapper, but not everybody can rap..

— Dominic Amali

Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is.

— Ice Cube

There has been an effect of business rap on the output of today's rap music. But I don't think that's the modern day rapper's…

— M.I.A

Pop culture mirrors culture, and, I think, as a rapper, hip-hop in a lot of ways mirrors the things that are happening in urban…

— Trip Lee

Chance The Rapper is just unreal: he's changing rap and really creating this whole amazing new style.

— Shawn Mendes

Rap will never be the same as before

— Eminem

Rap is no longer a pastime; this is a worldwide profession.

— KRS-One

Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.

— Cornel West